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- File System
- (1) The method for storing and retrieving files on a disk. It is system software that takes commands from the operating system to read and write the disk clusters...
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- Apple announces ZFS on Snow Leopard
- Finally, a modern file system on a consumer OS As if Grand Central weren't enough bad news for Microsoft, now they have ZFS to contend with. Building a reliable, high-performance file system takes years and Microsoft doesn't have years to respond. The formal announcement is...
- Tags: Disk, File System, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Sun ZFS, Checksum, RAID, Storage, Hardware, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-06-19
- Geek Sheet: Bare-metal backup and recovery
- Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job? Or perhaps you need some light reading material to help you get some sleep on the plane between consulting engagements – either way, welcome to the...
- Tags: Recovery, Network File System, File System, Photovoltaics, Backup, Volume, Partition, Machine, System Rescue CD, LVM, Volume Group, Linux, Manufacturing, Servers, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-07
- Reiser FS: The open source file system fallout
- Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina. While I won't go into the details of the case, as this has been covered extensively in the press, I would...
- Tags: File System, ReiserFS, Zetabyte File System, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-29
- Reiser found guilty of first degree murder
- Software developer Hans Reiser was found guilty today of first degree murder in the death of his wife in late 2006, a conviction that carries up to 25 years in prison and a possible death sentence for the Reiser4 file system. [Techmeme] The verdict, delivered...
- Tags: File System, Ts'o, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- Verdict in Hans Reiser murder case -- and fate of Reiser4 -- imminent
- Verdict in Hans Reiser murder case -- and fate of Reiser4 -- imminentNOT GUILTY!Let the man go!NonsenseI think is says something about Reiser that he probably murdered someone. I bet his wife was constantly harping on him for spending all his time glued to a monitor trying to reinvent the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Hans Reiser, file system, Reiser 4, Reiser, verdict, Reiser4
- Discussion threads 2008-04-28
- Verdict in Hans Reiser murder case -- and fate of Reiser4 -- imminent
- The fate of the Reiser4 file system for Linux may well depend on a verdict rendered by a California jury this week. As an Alameda County jury continues to deliberate the fate of Hans Reiser, the designer of the Reiser File System for Linux who is accused of murdering...
- Tags: Developer, Ubuntu, Linux Kernel, File System, Verdict, Reiser4, Reiser, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney
- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- File System Explorer (zip)
- File System Explorer is an easy-to-user file management tool for computers running Microsoft Windows. It lets you manage files and folders fast and easy using one of five interface variants: classical dual-panel variant, pioneered in Norton Commander, extended dual-panel variant, interface variant, similar to Windows Explorer and two horizontal variants:...
- Tags: File System, Variant, DSOSoftware Development, File System Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Software downloads 2008-04-16
- SuperSpy (zip)
- You can block some process, stop/start/pause services and end process. You can also remove program from the start-up. They're is a file system watcher, this mean it will monitor all file change, rename, and delete. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
- Tags: File System, R-N Soft
- Software downloads 2008-04-10
- PenguinPolitik: Only Ballmer could go to Linux
- In my previous post about last week's Microsoft Technology Summit, I talked a little bit about the structure of the event and the overtures that Microsoft seems to be making towards the Open Source community. Some of my esteemed industry colleagues feel that Microsoft is never to be trusted, that...
- Tags: Steve Ballmer, File System, Microsoft Corp., Glasnost, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-02
- File systems of the Mac's past, present and maybe future
- Over the past couple of years, the usurpation of the current Mac's HFS+ file system by Sun's ZFS has been predicted. Sometimes that message has been delivered incorrectly by Sun top brass. While Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Server supports ZFS, there's no expectation that it will...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, File System, Reimer, Ext3, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-03-27
- A quick lesson for your comp sci students
- I stumbled across a great explanation of why hard drives on Linux computers rarely need defragmenting. It's a common question from students and, as laid out in this post, makes for a great quick lesson on file systems and hard drive management for high school and college students just...
- Tags: Hard Drive, File System, Student, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- Data LifeSaver Data Recovery Software (zip)
- Data LifeSaver Data Recovery provides file system recovery after partitioning and formatting or virus attacks. Typically these are hard disks, memory cards, ZIP drives, memory cards, floppy disks, and other media that are formatted with Windows (NTFS, FAT 12/16/32) file systems. You only have to pick the partition, volume or...
- Tags: Recovery, Memory Card, File System, EASIS GmbH, Data LifeSaver Data Recovery, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2008-02-28
- What your disk drive isn't telling you
- What your disk drive isn't telling youNo safe havenIt seems that our data simply have no safe place to reside anywhere. Hard disks are unsafe, DVD's are unsafe disk rot.....Come on, industry, give us a safe, reliable and enduring storage medium. How hard can it be?Greetz, Pjotr.Broken main page link,...
- Tags: Storage, HARD DISKS, disk, disk drive, SCSI, RAID, file system
- Discussion threads 2008-02-18
- Horrors! Linus Torvalds calls HFS+ 'utter crap'
- In an interview at Melbourne's linux.conf.au conference, Linus Torvalds called the standard file system of Mac OS X "complete and utter crap." Mac fans are only slightly outraged, pointing out that HFS+ isn't really "complete and utter crap," rather, it's just slightly crap-ish. In the Sidney Morning...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, File System, Apple Inc., Linus Torvalds, Leopard, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, David Morgenstern
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- File Watcher Simple (zip)
- File Watcher Simple is a collection of XML configurable file system monitoring utilities console and WinForms with logging and task processing support. One instance can be configured to run multiple file system watchers. You can also write your own file system monitors thanks to the class library included in this...
- Tags: File System, Jussi Hiltunen
- Software downloads 2008-02-01
- VVV (Virtual Volumes View) (exe)
- VVV Virtual Volumes View is an application that catalogs the content of removable volumes such as CD and DVD disks for off-line searching. Folders and files can also be arranged in a single, virtual file system. Each folder of this virtual file system can contain files from many disks.Version 0.8...
- Tags: File System, FSoft, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-01-25
- Glary Undelete (exe)
- Glary Undelete is an easy-to-use yet powerful file undelete solution for FAT and NTFS file systems. It will bring back files emptied from the Recycle Bin. It will even recover files that have been deleted by bugs, crashes, and viruses. The program supports all Windows file systems for hard and...
- Tags: File System, Glary Undelete, Memory, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2008-01-24
- Why is my computer slowing down?
- Why is my computer slowing down?Not exactly ....With NTFS only the metadata is written to the journal, not the file data. So technically it's not the same type of journaling as with ext3 which writes the metadata and the file contents. Now Reiserfs is a metadata only journaling system, but...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Nothing, file system, Microsoft Windows, fragmentation, computer, NTFS, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-01-22
- Folder Watchdog Service (msi)
- Provides file system changes email notification service. It can send you a mail on either an event or no event, filtering by given citeria. Both local and remote file systems may be monitored. Can help you when you own a public ftp service, and want to be notified when someone...
- Tags: File System, FTP, E-mail, Online Communications
- Software downloads 2008-01-14
- Tree Shot (zip)
- The Tree Shot is a system utility for maintaining file system shots. The main features of the Tree Shot is a small size, fast scanning speed, small production file sizes. You may share your shots with other people by sending shot file to them via email or any other way....
- Tags: File System, Shot, Tree Shot
- Software downloads 2008-01-14
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